Re: Lima Beans & Walt Burgers

"A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following
diabolical device (which must be secured against direct interference
by the cat): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive
substance, so small that perhaps in the course of one hour one of the
atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it
happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a
hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has
left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the
cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic
decay would have poisoned it. The Psi function for the entire system
would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon
the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat_in_popular_culture



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I have no idea what this is trying to say...I read the wikipedia statement

and this one several times but I guess it doesn't sink in.